Rosetta Project Record-a-thon
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This a short video presented in American Sign Language by Carla Morris to introduce herself and the blog entry it will accompany. Carla is a summer intern with the Rosetta Project for the summer of 2010. She is currently a graduate student with the Linguistics department at Gallaudet University, Washington, DC.
Topics: ase, American Sign Language - video text
Giving a definition of the word "sisu": there is no translation for it in other languages. Sisu is a big part of Finnish culture and identity.
Topic: finnish
Icek tells a story based on a Yiddish joke.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, story, joke, icek mozes, humor, varshe, balegole
Jørund Gundersen speaking from Oslo Norway in his native Bergen Dialect
Topics: Norway, Bergen, Norwegian
Ahuva tells some of her life story in Yiddish.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, story, life story, ahuvu jolish, biographical
Parshuram is talking about Shivaji Maharaj, an important figure in Indian, especially Maharashtran, history.
Topics: Marathi, India, mar
In this video, I read part of the first chapter from Leonard Wolf's Yiddish translation of Winnie-the-Pooh (by A.A. Milne). This video is one of four videos comprising the entire first chapter and dedication.
Topic: yiddish
Icelandic poem "Gunnarsholmi" by Jonas Hallgrimsson (1807-1845)
Topics: Icelandic, poetry, gunnarsholmi, jonas hallgrimsson, isl, native speaker, fluent speaker
Oscar reads a poem that his father used to read to him as a child (from Yosl Kotler's "Muntergang"), and sings a song that his mother used to sing.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, oscar berland, poem, poetry, yosl kotler, yosel cutler, muntergang, song, music,...
Nicole speaking in French
Topic: french
A narrative describing experiences of the narrator as a prisoner from Poland in the Auschwitz concentration camp doing road repairs, sharing morsels of food, and exchanging secret notes with another prisoner across barbed wire, and his success after his liberation in making contact again with the other prisoner and corresponding with her before his emigration to the U.S. and their loss of contact.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, henry sattler, concentration camp, shoah, holocaust, Auschwitz, World War II,...
Explaining when the Danish were trying to convert the Finns to Christianity. It was very difficult...
Topic: finnish
Talking about the sauna in Finnish.
Topic: finnish
anita suter from st.gallen, switzerland, talking about her experience in the US and her relation to languages, speaking swiss german, "ostschweizer" dialect
Topics: swiss german, switzerland, german, st.gallen, ostschweiz
Bashe talks about her family history and recites several Yiddish proverbs.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, galicia, poland, world war two, shoah, proverbs, shprikhverter, bashe kuperstein
Gerry discusses Yiddish music and sings a few songs, including a Yiddish rendition of A Hard Day's Night.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, songs, music, beatles, a hard day's night
Talking about how I envision words as physical objects.
Topic: finnish
A brief chat in Icelandic about coffee
Topics: icelandic, coffee
Finnish folk song.
Topic: finnish
Evelyn is interviewed by her daughter, Susan, about her childhood and family history.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, evelyn rasky, susan rasky, childhood, family history
I'm narrating two worldless books.
Topics: German, High German, wordless book, story, narration, deu
Part 1 of the group discussion, "Why do we still speak Yiddish?" Record-a-thon participants discuss their personal histories with the language, and how it relates to their lives now.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, language, discussion, conversation, why do we still speak yiddish
Part 2 of the group discussion, "Why do we still speak Yiddish?" Record-a-thon participants discuss their personal histories with the language, and how it relates to their lives now.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, language, discussion, conversation, why do we still speak yiddish
My story; living in San Francisco.
Topic: swahili
Shona, a native Zimbabwean language.
Topic: shona
Reading of Arabic: conversational, proverbs, and songs
Topic: arabic
A story and songs in Yiddish by Joseph Luft, with Rosie Kaplan occasionally singing out of frame.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, songs, story, life story, joseph luft
Evelyn converses with Evie Groch about her childhood and family history.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, evelyn rasky, evie groch, childhood, family history
German Swadesh list.
Topic: german
Talking about food of the Netherlands
Topics: dutch, food, stories
moment from the book Signs Near the Road by Ivo Andric. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1961/andric-bio.html interpretation: Serbian language all the nations who live in balkan can relate and read in original ivo andric books
Topics: freedom, expats, Balkan, ivo andric, world
Susan asks Jonathan to name various things, and he answers.
Topics: esperanto, noun, name, thing
Sandy and trio have a little talk in Esperanto about some of their travels, using Esperanto, around the world.
Topics: Esperanto, International Language, travel, conversation, travelogue, epo, non-native speaker,...
Stefania and Barbara, both from Milan, are talking about their home country Italy.
Topics: Italian, ita
Record-a-thon participants sing Yiddish folks, with Gerry Tenney on guitar. This is part 1 of a two-part recording. Part 2 is available at http://archive.org/details/jewishdiasporarecordathon_gantse.grupe_005
Topics: yiddish, yidish, songs, music, folk songs, chorus
Life in Serbia vs US part 2
Topics: serbian, lifestyle
Mixteco Bajo
Topics: Mixteco Bajo, Numbers
Gundega, Ruta, Arturs having a conversation about Latvian clothing, living in Latvia and living in the USA.
Topics: latvian, conversation
Rosie Kaplan and Evie Groch talking in Yiddish about how they made chicken soup.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, recipes, chicken soup, food words, story, evie groch, rosie kaplan
Record-a-thon participants sing Yiddish folks, with Gerry Tenney on guitar. This is part 2 of a two-part recording. Part 1 is available at http://archive.org/details/jewishdiasporarecordathon_gantse.grupe_004
Topics: yiddish, yidish, songs, music, folk songs, chorus
moment from the book Signs Near the Road by Ivo Andric. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1961/andric-bio.html interpretation: Serbian language all the nations who live in balkan can relate and read in original ivo andric books
Topic: Serbian, Balkan, world
Lost frog story told in Dutch
Topics: dutch, kids, story
A story in Yiddish by Rosie Kaplan about her family.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, my family, story, biographical, rosie kaplan
Gundega, Ruta, Arturs discussing Ruta's Latvian outfit and the history of Latvia and living in the USA and Latvia.
Topics: latvian, conversation
Taira, Anda, and Laimonis discuss Latvian theater, clothing, and the Ventspils dialect (of which Anda gives several examples). See recap, in English, at the following URL: archive.org/details/latvianrecordathon_taira_anda_laimonis_002
Topics: latvian, latvia, theater, art, performance, clothing, costume, dress, ventspils, dialects
Mara describes what she would do with five days in Latvia.
Topics: latvian, latvia, visit, vacation, activities
Una, Meldra, and their daughters talk in Latvian about the Latvian alphabet, and demo a related iPad app.
Topics: latvian, latvia, alphabet, spelling, sounds, letters, language, basics, ipad, application
a conversation in swedish by two siblings. discussing their day, and their dislike of the sound of swedish.
Topic: swedish
Evie and Rosie introduce themselves and the Record-a-thon to the other participants.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, introduction, record-a-thon, evie groch, rosie kaplan
Candra Neff speaks from the Tuolumne Me-Wuk Phrasebook One in the Central Sierra Miwok language.
Topics: central sierra miwok, csm, me-wuk, miwok, phrasebook, phrases
A lullaby in Finnish.
Topic: finnish
Members of the Northern California Latvian Association explain briefly, in English, the meaning and significance of their dainas (Latvian folk poems). See the following URL for the original recording of the dainas in Latvian: archive.org/details/latvianrecordathon_northern.california.latvian.association_001
Topics: latvian, latvia, dainas, folk poems, folklore, explanation, translation
(I look terrible, nevertheless...) I speak in Esperanto, The International Language, for less than 3 minutes, showing the covers and a sample page from 6 books for children in Esperanto.
Topics: Esperanto, International Language, children's books, tired
A story in Yiddish from Evie Groch about her beginnings.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, my beginnings, story, biographical, evie groch
Finnish folk song.
Topic: finnish
Description of the Japan 2011 earthquake.
Topics: Japanese, japan earthquake 2011
Linda recites some Latvian nursery rhymes with her daughter Amanda.
Topics: latvian, latvia, nursery rhyme, children's story, children's game
Linda and Armand name Latvian terms for body parts.
Topics: latvian, latvia, body parts, vocabulary
Members of the Northern California Latvian Association present a gift to Roberts Ozolds and recite several dainas (Latvian folk poems). See the following URL for an explanation of the dainas in English: archive.org/details/latvianrecordathon_northern.california.latvian.association_002
Topics: latvian, latvia, dainas, folk poems, folklore
jim telling a story in greek
Topics: greek, story, ell, fluent speaker, reading
A candid conversation in Latvian from Brigita, Ruta, and Gundega.
Topics: latvian, latvia, conversation, chat
Talking in English about chatspeak and emoticons.
Topics: english, chatspeak, emoticons, acronyms, eng
Members of the Northern California Latvian Association sing a song in Latvian.
Topics: latvian, latvia, song
Gustavo sings a Honduran folk song. It is a love song about a girl with dark skin.
Topics: Spanish, Honduran Spanish, Honduras, folk song, love song, spa
Some brief, non-fluent Sinhala.
Topics: sinhala, sin, non-native speaker, language learner, reading
Work in Japan
Topics: Japanese, lawyer, career, IP
Marta, Brigita, and Arturs (the cameraman) converse in Latvian.
Topics: latvian, latvia, conversation
Hawaiian proverbs, colors, disc drives
Topics: Hawaiian, colors, proverbs, phrases
Kids Story about missing frog
Topics: serbian, book, kids, story
Edgar and son Armand sing a Latvian song.
Topics: latvian, latvia, song
Taira, Anda, and Laimonis give a brief recap, in English, of their conversation about Latvian theater, clothing, and the Ventspils dialect. See original recording, in Latvian, at the following URL: archive.org/details/latvianrecordathon_taira_anda_laimonis_001
Topics: latvian, latvia, theater, art, performance, clothing, costume, dress, ventspils, dialects
A joke in Finnish, with the punchline.
Topic: finnish
Part 3 of the group discussion, "Why do we still speak Yiddish?" Record-a-thon participants discuss their personal histories with the language, and how it relates to their lives now.
Topics: yiddish, yidish, language, discussion, conversation, why do we still speak yiddish
Talking about the Record-a-thon in English.
Topic: english
